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by Barbara Hodge
Lord / João Gilberto NollEdgar Garbelotto, translator / Two Lines Press / Softcover $12.95 (120pp) / 978-1-931883-79-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / João Gilberto Noll’s Lord opens with a cryptic quote from Iain...
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Sailing around the San Francisco Bay harvesting seabird eggs, Yao Bai just wants to spot a whale. But the arrival of competitors turns the peaceful trip into a fight for survival. Inspired by the natural wonders of the Farallon Islands...
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by Matt Sutherland
Give it up for The Road to Healing: A Civil Rights Reparations Story in Prince Edward County, Virginia, detailing one of the most despicable episodes of government-sponsored racism ever to mar the reputation of our country. You should...
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by Michelle Anne Schingler
What we call science fiction is a conundrum—considering the fact that cell phones, the internet, 3D printing, and so much else in our world would have qualified as the stuff of science fiction only fifty years ago. So, what is sci-fi?...
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K Chess’s magnificent speculative novel "Famous Men Who Never Lived" straddles two among infinite worlds, “starting off the same and hurtling to two wholly different fates.” It is an awesome and humbling literary achievement. In...
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by Matt Sutherland
FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / Give it up for Biddy Mason Speaks Up, the latest release in Heyday’s Fighting for Justice series profiling superstars of civil rights and social progress for young readers....
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Tonic and Balm / Stephanie Allen / Shade Mountain Press / Hardcover $22.95 (208pp) / 978-0-9984634-3-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Decades after twentieth-century pharmaceuticals, urbanization, and television put...
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by Pallas McCorquodale
We’re a fearful species, us humans. Even in this age of relative peace and prosperity, our fight or flight instinct is honed so keenly even unexpected loud noises cause us to jump out of our boots. Thankfully, we’re not often chased...
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